WEBVTT WE WILL CHECK IN NOWWITH OUR METEOROLOGIST,STEPHANIE WALKER.STEPHANIE: GOOD MORNING.A LIVE LOOK OVER DOWNTOWNBIRMINGHAM.RAIN HAS STARTED TO PICK BACKUP.VISIBILITY NOT TERRIBLY BAD.I HAVE SEEN IT WORSE.WE ARE STILL SEEING PLENTY OFRAIN AND GUSTY WINDS.LOOK AT THAT IN SHELBY COUNTY.A WIND GUST AT 31 MILES PERHOUR.20 MILE PER HOUR TO 30 MILE PERHOUR WINDS, MAYBE GUSTING ASHIGH AS 35 TO 40 IN SOMELOCATIONS UNTIL THE STORM MOVESOUT OF CENTRAL ALABAMA.AS WE LOOK AT THE RADAR IMAGE,OF KIND OF THE LAST COUPLE OFHOURS, THERE IS A CENTER OFCIRCULATION.THE CENTER STILL MOVING INTOSOUTHWEST TUSCALOOSA COUNTY.MOST OF THE GUSTY WINDS WITHINHEAVIER RAIN AND OFF TO THENORTH AND EAST.KIND OF A RAGGED-LOOKINGTROPICAL STORM RIGHT NOW.IT IS A MINIMAL TROPICAL STORM,AND IT CONTINUES TO WEAKEN AS ITMOVES NORTH.IT IS BRINGING DOWN SOME POWERLINES AND TREES IN SOMELOCATIONS.THERE ARE FOLKS THAT DO NOT HAVEPOWER THIS MORNING.WE ARE NOT DONE YET.STILL LOOKING AT AT LEASTANOTHER FIVE HOURS TO SIX HOURSBEFORE THIS STORM TRACKS INTONORTHEAST ALABAMA.IT WILL LIKELY BE IN THEBIRMINGHAM AREA AROUND 11:00, ATLEAST THE CENTER OF THE STORM,LOCATED HERE.PLENTY OF RAIN AND WIND.HARMONY: AND THE WVTM 13 LIVEDOPPLER IS COMING IN HANDY.THIS IS SUCH A QUICK MOVINGSYSTEM.IT IS EVOLVING AND WEAKENINGSIGNIFICANTLY.MANY AREAS IN OUR WEST ALABAMACOUNTIES HAVE SEEN SEVERAL ANDRISER IS LIFTED.WE DO HAVE HEAVIER SPOTS RIGHTNOW WE ARE TRACKING.IN CULLMAN COUNTY, A HEAVY SPOTTHERE.CLOSER TO GARDENDALE, ONEONTA,SOME HEAVIER SPOTS AROUND ST.CLAIR COUNTY.WE ALSO HAD HEAVIER RAIN AMOUNTSMAINLY JUST TO THE WEST OF I-65AND AREAS OF CHILTON COUNTY.AS OF THIS HOUR, 9:02 YOUR TIME,WE ARE TALKING 45 MILE-PER-HOURWIND AROUND THE EYE OF NATE.WE WILL WATCH IT TRACK INTOAREAS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY.THE CENTER OF CIRCULATION, THECORE OF THIS SYSTEM, IS WHERETHE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE.THE EYE SHOULD THE HERE -- MAYBEIN AN HOUR, AN HOUR AND A HALFEMILY WILL START TO SEE THEIMPACTS.BY 1:00 IN THE AFTERNOON, IWOULD NOT SURPRISED SEE THIS ASA MUCH WEAKER SYSTEM,POTENTIALLY A TROPICALDEPRESSION, AND ALSO SEEINGWEAKER WIND SPEEDS.